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Replication Materials for: Party or Policy? The Role of Policy Partisanship in Voter Decision-Making
Authors: Clareta Treger, Thomas Galipeau, Thomas Bergeron, Sarah Lachance, Natasha Goel, Md Mujahedul Islam, Blake Lee-Whiting, Beatrice Magistro, and Peter John Loewen.
Journal: Political Behavior

Last update: February 19, 2026
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This archive contains the replication package for the article submitted to Political Behavior. 
It includes the datasets, and replication scripts used to reproduce results presented in the main analysis and supplementary materials.

DIRECTORY CONTENTS: 

Scripts: 
[1] Party_or_Policy_main_analysis_and_si_190226.R

Datasets: 
[a] main_data_party_or_policy.csv 
[b] CHES_CA2023_expert-level.dta 
[c] 2023 Canadian Election Study v2.0.dta
[d] 1710000501_databaseLoadingData.csv
[e] 1710000901_databaseLoadingData.csv
 

SOFTWARE ENVIRONMENT:
The replication script was developed and tested in:
* R version: R version 4.5.1 (2025-06-13 ucrt) -- "Great Square Root"
* Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64
* Operating System: Windows 11 Version 10.0.26100 Build 26100
The script uses widely available R packages. All package calls are included at the beginning of the script.


INSTRUCTIONS for REPLICATION:
> To replicate all the analysis reported in the Article (except Table 2, see below) and Supporting Information Sections B-E use R script [1] and dataset [a]. 
> To replicate Table 2 in the Article use R script [1] and dataset [b].   
> To replicate Table A1 in Supporting Information Section A use R script [1] and datasets [a], [c], [d] and [e].   

o Output files (figures, tables) are saved to the working directory.

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